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The largest single-location land battle in the history of North America in modern times was the battle of Gettysburg with an estimated 3,155 killed, 14,531 wounded on the Union side and 4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded on the Confederate side. Approximately 165,620 men fought in the battle.
It could also be argued that the Fredericksburg campaign, which lasted from 11 December to 15 December 1862 and was fought in and around Spotsylvania county and Fredericksburg, Virgina was a single battle, although it is usually considered to be a series of related battles: the Crossing the Rappahannock over the span of 11-12 December, then two separate battles on 13 December - one south of Fredericksburg and another at the city of Fredericksburg known as the battle of Marye's Heights. The last 2 days of the Fredericksburg campaign mainly consisted of the Union troops recovering their wounded and retreating under a white flag of truce. In all, about 114,000 Union troops and 72,500 fought in the battles with a reported 12,653 Union casualties (1,284 killed, 9,600 wounded, 1,769 captured/missing) and 5,377 Confederate casualties (608 killed, 4,116 wounded, 653 captured/missing). If the Fredericksburg campaign is considered a single multi-day battle, it would be bigger than Gettysburg.
For comparison, the largest battle of the Revolutionary war was the battle of Long Island which involved about 10,000 American and 20,000 British troops. The largest land battle of the war of 1812 was probably the Battle of New Orleans where about 11,000 British troops fought with about 4,000 American troops resulting in 2459 British casualties (386 killed, 1,521 wounded, 552 missing) and 333 American casualties (55 killed, 185 wounded, 93 missing). In the Mexican/American war, the biggest battle may have been the battle of Churubusco where about 3,800 Mexican soldiers fought 8,497 US soldiers resulting in 263 killed, 460 wounded, 1,261 captured, and 20 missing for the Mexican army and 139 killed, 865 wounded 40 missing for the US Army.
There may well have been larger battles in pre-columbian times but not enough information is available to estimate the size of these battles between the indigenous peoples
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